A scandal over migrants being chased through the streets has exposed a rift between Angela Merkel and Germany’s security establishment that
is dividing her coalition and hindering efforts to contain the fall-out from
her “open door” refugee policy, Reuters reports.

The crisis blew up when Hans-Georg Maassen, chief of the BfV
intelligence agency, said he was not convinced far-right extremists had
attacked migrants in the eastern city of Chemnitz last month and a video said
to show the violence may be fake.

That put Maassen at odds with
Merkel, who said the pictures “very clearly revealed hate” which could not be
tolerated.

“For a more decisive
chancellor, this would have been enough to fire him,” said Carsten Nickel at
political consultancy Teneo Intelligence, adding that support for Maassen from
Merkel’s conservative Bavarian allies was staying her hand.

Now, Merkel is caught between her Bavarian sister party, the
Christian Social Union (CSU), which backs Maassen, and her other coalition
partner, the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), who say he has lost
credibility and must go.

The upshot is that the
chancellor looks weak, her coalition is in crisis and she is less able to deal
with pressing issues such as Brexit, European Union reform and trade problems
with the United States.

“The migration issue will
certainly continue to haunt Merkel until the end of her term.” – Carsten Nickel

The Maassen row has its roots
in Merkel’s 2015 decision to open Germany’s borders to refugees fleeing war in
the Middle East. More than one million came in total.

“Maassen is not an isolated
case. Maassen is part of the security community,” said Robin Alexander, author
of ‘Die Getriebenen, or ‘Those Driven by Events,’ an account of how Merkel and
her lieutenants handled the refugee crisis.

“For this security community, autumn 2015 was a disaster – not
just for Maassen, but for all of them,” he added. “There is a deep alienation
of the whole security community from the chancellor, and that was not the case
in Germany previously.”

Breaking News - Germany's top spy under fire over migrants

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Chemnitz unrest: German top spy Maassen under fire
Political pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to sack Germany\'s domestic intelligence chief, Hans-Georg Maassen, will reach a climax on Tuesday. Ms Merkel is to meet her coalition partners to examine the spy boss\'s controversial response to recent far-right unrest in Chemnitz.Unnamed coalition sources quoted by the daily Die Welt say Ms Merkel has decided that Mr Maassen must go.He had expressed doubt that migrants had been hounded in Chemnitz.
Why did Mr Maassen get into hot water?Far-right groups, including football hooligans, protested in the eastern German city on 26 August just hours after a German man had been fatally stabbed in a brawl with migrants.
Later two male asylum-seekers - an Iraqi and a Syrian - were arrested and accused of the stabbing. Police are still looking for a third suspect.Several assaults on foreigners, or foreign-looking people, were reported in Chemnitz, and were described as racist hunts. Images emerged showing demonstrators chasing people and flinging bottles and fireworks.But Mr Maassen said his Federal Office for Constitutional Protection (BfV) - Germany\'s equivalent of the UK\'s MI5 - had no reliable information about such hunts taking place. He also questioned whether a video posted by Antifa Zeckenbiss - meaning anti-fascist tick bite - really showed, as claimed, a hunt in Chemnitz on 26 August. Mr Maassen said the video could have been disinformation; he added that he did not know who was behind Antifa Zeckenb...

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Chemnitz unrest: German top spy Maassen under fire
Political pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to sack Germany\'s domestic intelligence chief, Hans-Georg Maassen, will reach a climax on Tuesday. Ms Merkel is to meet her coalition partners to examine the spy boss\'s controversial response to recent far-right unrest in Chemnitz.Unnamed coalition sources quoted by the daily Die Welt say Ms Merkel has decided that Mr Maassen must go.He had expressed doubt that migrants had been hounded in Chemnitz.
Why did Mr Maassen get into hot water?Far-right groups, including football hooligans, protested in the eastern German city on 26 August just hours after a German man had been fatally stabbed in a brawl with migrants.
Later two male asylum-seekers - an Iraqi and a Syrian - were arrested and accused of the stabbing. Police are still looking for a third suspect.Several assaults on foreigners, or foreign-looking people, were reported in Chemnitz, and were described as racist hunts. Images emerged showing demonstrators chasing people and flinging bottles and fireworks.But Mr Maassen said his Federal Office for Constitutional Protection (BfV) - Germany\'s equivalent of the UK\'s MI5 - had no reliable information about such hunts taking place. He also questioned whether a video posted by Antifa Zeckenbiss - meaning anti-fascist tick bite - really showed, as claimed, a hunt in Chemnitz on 26 August. Mr Maassen said the video could have been disinformation; he added that he did not know who was behind Antifa Zeckenb...

German spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen under fire

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MERKEL ON BRINK: Coalition faces COLLAPSE over Germany spy chief scandal
The leaders had agreed to transfer Hans-Georg Maassen to the interior ministry over accusations he held far-right sympathies after he questioned the authenticity of video footage showing radicals hounding migrants in the eastern city of Chemnitz. But the compromise deal, which would put Mr Maassen in a better paid job, unravelled on Friday when Andrea Nahles - leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), junior partner in Merkel\'s conservative-led coalition - said it was a mistake. Mrs Merkel and her Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer agreed to review the deal and the chancellor said the three ...
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Merkel fires top spy chief and then gives him 'promotion'

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Merkel forces top spy chief out and then gives him \'promotion\'. Hans-Georg Maassen has been given a new job in interior ministry after criticising veracity of Chemnitz reports.…
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\'I was WRONG\' Merkel\'s GROVELLING apology as Germany coalition TEETERS on brink
ANGELA Merkel has been forced to issue a grovelling apology over her handling of the scandal involving Germany\'s ex-intelligence chief.
Mrs Merkel\'s government was plunged into crisis over allegations Hans-Georg Maassen, from Berlin\'s spy agency BfV, held far-right sympathies.
The dispute threatened to derail Germany\'s fragile coalition, which was formed just six months ago, and lead to Mrs Merkel\'s demise.
The Chancellor sought to diffuse the row last week by sacking Mr Maassen.
But she agreed to let him take a better-paid job at Germany\'s Interior Ministry, sparking a further public backlash.
In a frank admission on Monday, Angela Merkel said she had mishandled the fallout by failing to listen to the German people.
The centre-right leader said: \"I did not focus enough on what moves, rightly, when they hear of someone\'s promotion.
\"I regret very much that that was allowed to happen. It is important that we now solve the problems of the people.\"
Speaking about the coalition\'s internal divisions, she added: \"In many areas we have been too preoccupied with ourselves. That has to change.\"
The scandal erupted when Mr Maassen questioned reports that far-right protesters had hounded migrants in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
His comments put him at odds with Mrs Merkel, who said images from Chemnitz \"very clearly revealed hate\" which could not be tolerated.
The far-right violence, the worst seen in Germany in decades, followed the fatal stabbing of a German man that was blamed on two migran...

\'I was WRONG\' Merkel\'s GROVELLING apology as Germany coalition TEETERS on brink
ANGELA Merkel has been forced to issue a grovelling apology over her handling of the scandal involving Germany\'s ex-intelligence chief.
Mrs Merkel\'s government was plunged into crisis over allegations Hans-Georg Maassen, from Berlin\'s spy agency BfV, held far-right sympathies.
The dispute threatened to derail Germany\'s fragile coalition, which was formed just six months ago, and lead to Mrs Merkel\'s demise.
The Chancellor sought to diffuse the row last week by sacking Mr Maassen.
But she agreed to let him take a better-paid job at Germany\'s Interior Ministry, sparking a further public backlash.
In a frank admission on Monday, Angela Merkel said she had mishandled the fallout by failing to listen to the German people.
The centre-right leader said: \"I did not focus enough on what moves, rightly, when they hear of someone\'s promotion.
\"I regret very much that that was allowed to happen. It is important that we now solve the problems of the people.\"
Speaking about the coalition\'s internal divisions, she added: \"In many areas we have been too preoccupied with ourselves. That has to change.\"
The scandal erupted when Mr Maassen questioned reports that far-right protesters had hounded migrants in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
His comments put him at odds with Mrs Merkel, who said images from Chemnitz \"very clearly revealed hate\" which could not be tolerated.
The far-right violence, the worst seen in Germany in decades, followed the fatal stabbing of a German man that was blamed on two migran...

Germany: Coalition leaders reconsider spy chief's transfer

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Germany: Coalition leaders reconsider spy chief's transfer

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The leaders of Germany\'s governing coalition will discuss the future of former domestic security chief Hans-Georg Maassen over the weekend, confirmed Chancellor Angela Merkel in a speech from Hotel Kempisnky Four Seasons in Munich.
\"Mrs. Nahles, Horst Seehofer and I were in contact this afternoon regarding the procedure about present head of Germany\'s domestic security agency,\" she told journalists.
\"We agreed to evaluate the situation again,\" Merkel concluded.
Her statement came shortly after Socialist Democratic Party (SPD) leader\'s Andrea Nahles insisted on revevaluating Maassen\'s controversial transfer to the Interior Ministry.
The spy chief was removed from his post after comments on the far-right protests in Chemnitz, which directly contradicted Chancellor Angela Merkel.
His new job reportedly comes with a substantial salary increase and has been heavily criticised for effectively being a promotion.
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The leaders of Germany\'s governing coalition will discuss the future of former domestic security chief Hans-Georg Maassen over the weekend, confirmed Chancellor Angela Merkel in a speech from Hotel Kempisnky Four Seasons in Munich.
\"Mrs. Nahles, Horst Seehofer and I were in contact this afternoon regarding the procedure about present head of Germany\'s domestic security agency,\" she told journalists.
\"We agreed to evaluate the situation again,\" Merkel concluded.
Her statement came shortly after Socialist Democratic Party (SPD) leader\'s Andrea Nahles insisted on revevaluating Maassen\'s controversial transfer to the Interior Ministry.
The spy chief was removed from his post after comments on the far-right protests in Chemnitz, which directly contradicted Chancellor Angela Merkel.
His new job reportedly comes with a substantial salary increase and has been heavily criticised for effectively being a promotion.
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\'I was WRONG\' Merkel\'s GROVELLING apology as Germany coalition TEETERS on brink
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The leaders of Germany\'s governing coalition will discuss the future of former domestic security chief Hans-Georg Maassen over the weekend, confirmed Chancellor Angela Merkel in a speech from Hotel Kempisnky Four Seasons in Munich.
\"Mrs. Nahles, Horst Se